SADIQABAD, Nov 30: Hundreds of posts, for both male and female teachers, are lying vacant in various institutions in the district.

The consequent impact on education in all these schools and colleges is disastrous. If students are suffering uncertain future, parents are going through mental agony.

Meanwhile, Punjab Teachers’ Union district president Chaudhry Ahmad Ali Akhtar has urged the authorities to provide a relief to the affectees.

He told newsmen here on Friday that absence of teachers in secondary and middle schools was posing serious problems to the students. Ban was continuing on new positions, he added.

The salaries of the existing staff, according to him, were paid late by 15 days. Similarly, numerous primary schools were lying closed for non-availability of PTC cadre teachers.

Some 30 posts of learning coordinators are also lying vacant. Primary teachers have on more than one occasion been denied promotions.

The administration pays salaries to teachers in the last week of the month, adding to the complications.

The PTU chief demanded that ban should be lifted and postings must be ensured on merit. He has also demanded that selection grades must be revived besides reviving move-over scheme for the incumbents in BPS-16.

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